#societal division

[aci25]

Why We're Getting Dumber and More Divided

Adults are reading less, teenagers are reading a lot less, children are being read to less, and a shocking number of voters are unable to read their ballots. How much does this illiteracy undermine democracy?

[theaspirationsinstitute]

TAI Motivational Moments Blog: Leaders Who Serve vs. Leaders Who Take: The True Measure of Legacy

In today's world, it's easy to spot the individuals and organizations leveraging their power and influence for self-serving, transactional g

[l-in-c-future]

Why We Hate | Documentary Ep4

What drives us to embrace hateful ideas? Extremism expert Sasha Havlicek explores the complicated factors that draw people toward ideologies that fuel hate and violence. Far right (hail Trump fans and their propaganda institutes) and the (radical) Islam perspective share the same narrative. They are tactically organizing cross border activities with a wide spectrum of ideologies to sow the seeds of division, polarization and deep polarization.

[absurdlakefront]

The underlying battle is (as it has always been) rival understandings of the meaning of freedom. Is the common good best secured through the wider dissemination of opportunity and active pursuit of social justice (the liberal persuasion); or by the stronger enforcement of public safety through a locally derived, family-centered moral consensus (the conservative persuasion)? But freedom from fear? Will stubborn, snobbish, clannish conservatives ever have the perfect world they crave? Aren’t bleeding heart liberals equally hopeless as they go out in search of others who feel what they feel? Politics exist because neither side’s definition of unsullied freedom will ever come to pass, and because compromise only succeeds when emotions align. We’ve divided ourselves into two national political parties, two simple ways of defining moral community. Reason is clearly not a competent opponent in its contest with the irrational.

Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Is Being Liberal a Choice?